Manager, Account Merchandising - Walgreens

Manager, Account Merchandising - Walgreens

Consumer Products Division

Chicago

Account Director

For more than a century, L'Oreal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business:
Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beautyin terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L'Oreal Consumers Products, our mission is to democratize the best of beauty, and for us, beauty has to be sustainable. Our division holds the world's #1 beauty brand with L'Oreal Paris, the #1 makeup brand with Maybelline New York, the #1 natural brand with Garnier, as well as NYX Professional Makeup.

The Account Merchandising role is a critical team member of the CPD Cosmetics Sales team responsible for bringing our brand visions to life at "the wall" and continually looking for ways to improve the consumer experience while maximizing performance & profitability of our capital investment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to bring art & science together utilizing consumer & customer insights to curate and arrange an assortment that optimizes the critical at shelf moment in the consumer decision journey.

• Responsible for the management of all aspects of planograming experience & performance for CPD Cosmetics inclusive of L'Oreal Paris Cosmetics & NYX
• Lead optimization of new consumer centric innovation each season while adapting planograms to meet ever changing dynamic cosmetics landscape. Continually work to identify opportunities & problems and develop solutions for both short& long-term improvement.
• Partner with Account Leads and internal planogram teams to ensure the merchandising & consumer demands are met to grow the cosmetics category
• Key Team Member of CPD Cosmetics Sales team.

• Develop Cosmetics Planogram Strategy, optimizing for distribution, space to sales modular productivity and provide quarterly reporting to track performance & use for ad-hoc analysis
• Continually keep a pulse on best-in-class merchandising solutions across CPD customers & within the larger market place to ensure we are finding ways to amplify Cosmetics at Walgreens
• Support Cosmetics Line Review including Add/Deletes Forecast and Innovation Sell Stories
• Support Permanent Merchandising Execution, liaising with SMSB, fixture suppliers, etc.
• Partner with RMM & creative team on graphic start work form and manage proofing &timely execution of all graphics
• Own the innovation forecast, pipe, and on-going performance including recommendations for future opportunities based on trends & analytics to be shared postlaunch internally & with Ulta
• Own customer- specific analytics sharing relevant insights with sales, brand, and customer including ways to amplify all 4 Ps during key moments throughout the year
• Own cosmetics new it paperwork, item setup and submission within Walgreen's internal system
• Additional tasks that are relevant to the job

• All timelines for resets are achieved via collaboration& clear communication with key team members
• Add/Deletes each season support category growth while minimizing capital & expense to maximize ROI
• Planogram linear productivity in growth, beating total category benchmarks
• Create stories using analytics to identify opportunities and creativity to bring new & different solutions
• Growth mindset, open to new ideas, ways of working, and monitoring trends & competition

• Walgreens Account Cosmetics Leads and broader commercial team
• Walgreens merchants and Walgreens cross functional partners
• Brand Activation& Brand Marketing Teams
• Internal Merchandising & Wall Planning Teams

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3-5 years' experience in Sales
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills are a must.
• Excellent Excel including pivot tables & advanced formulas and PowerPoint skills
• Pro-space and Modular Drawing Experiencea plus
• Strong knowledge of customer strategy and key levers as well as competitors
• Deep knowledge of beauty and personal care
• Ability to create an account specific selling story by utilizing a combination of syndicated data, POS and internal consumer insights
• Strong ability to build trusting relationships with cross functional partners
• Innovate in a collaborative manner
• Self-motivated, results and solution oriented,…